This page is a running list with open calls for everything we’d loooove help with these upcoming weeks & months.

If you find something that resonates, DM Nadia Piet on Slack to get the ball rolling or refer back to the How to Contribute to AIxDESIGN [Contributor Kickstart Guide] page for more info.

01_Current Requests

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Help prep Slow AI zines for print! We have the file ready but needs to be made print-ready (bleeds, crop marks, CMYK etc.). U can see the specific printer specs here (under 'aanlever specificaties').

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Help design / prep our Archival Images of AI sticker sheet for print. We have a design version in Figma but the file isn’t set up in InDesign which will be needed for print

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Support Slow AI Festival team

Open Calls: Be part of the AIxDESIGN Festival!

→ Build us an ‘arcade casing’ so we can make a critical AI game hall

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Help us process our [RESEARCH] Prompt Your Person [𐫱 Latent Identities] research into publishable resources for others interested in exploring bias in gen AI!

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Help us create social media content

Help us research, write, design, and create content, resources, channels that are valuable to the community, wider network, and AIxD as an org.

1. Help develop, launch, produce (new) content formats
   • Community interviews
   • Sharing from are.na > Celune
   • AI pop culture

• Help create content for ongoing projects
• Support in video editing
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Research boards

• Improve / rebuild our digital garden for the Slow AI project so there’s a public spatial board with research + updates like a visual summary for people to roam around
• Create research boards / digital garden for other projects - how do we ‘work in the open’? How can people more easily see what we’re working on and weigh in?
• Revive, weed & seed a ‘general’ AIxDESIGN Community (Digital) Garden (set a structure, invite others) </aside>

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Help incorporate community perspectives for our upcoming Slow AI anthology appendixesss

• Offer a Community Contribution yourself 🙂
• Help organize, curate, and collate Community Contributions
• Help us do and manage outreach to include community contributions + voices in the upcoming Slow AI anthology (we have a public open call here, but this would be about pro-actively curating and inviting the people we’d love to include and amplify) </aside>

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Help us design cute AIxD merchandise - think shirts, mugs, stickers, temporary tattoos, idkkkk

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Improve the way we organize working with contributors and create and upkeep meaningful exchanges (including the monthly calls, this page, this page you’re on right now)

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Help prep for upcoming talks + workshops from AIxDESIGN Academy and the core team (one of the core ways we now fund AIxD) by designing cute slides, preparing materials, doing additional research

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Connect us to potential funders, grants, or sponsors to help work towards sustainably funding AIxD

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Help write, curate, create our monthly email newsletter

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02_Adopted missions (YAY thank you!)

03_Nice to have / For Later

04_Backlog / For Someday

05_Expired

1. Slow AI
   1. Develop festival identity > September / October Socials, website, Exhibition + space design, tickets
   2. Presentations of Slow AI artworks > October / November
      • Support in creating interactive web presentations for Slow AI commissioned artists
      • Support in how to present as festival installations
2. Website > w/ Dominika
   • Design & accessibility audit / Website crit > August
   • Execute > September/October/November

• Maybe later 🙂
• Initial longlist by Nadi and annotated by April